{"id":160,"date":"2025-04-08T20:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:08:28","slug":"three-things-about-alien-nation-the-tv-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/three-things-about-alien-nation-the-tv-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"three things about Alien Nation The TV Movie:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">spoiler i guess<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">If you can think of a &#8220;how would racism be displaced onto an alien race&#8221; idea it&#8217;s probably in here (also, a wheelchair-using student bullies the Newcomer&#8217;s daughter)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">They resolve the conspiracy (which is an extension\/revision of the original film&#8217;s plot) in a several-minute-long monologue over slow motion shots of the characters realizing who is guilty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">there is a plotline that involves the apparent transformation of a Newcomer into a giant insect and the costuming is very 1990s monster of the week show, and just as I was thinking &#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s supposed to be real or a person in a costume&#8221; they pulled a piece of velcro off of it and realized it was a fake monster meant to stir up animus against the Newcomers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I might as well watch some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spoiler i guess I might as well watch some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-alien-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}